希拉里：成立“10萬人留學中國計劃基金會”的講話

Remarks at Launch of the 100,000 Strong Foundation
by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
Ben Franklin Room
Washington, DC
January 24, 2013
美國國務卿希拉里·羅德姆·克林頓就成立“10萬人留學中國計劃基金會”發表的講話
本傑明·富蘭克林廳
華盛頓哥倫比亞特區
2013年1月24日

Thank you. Well, we’re all getting a little emotional and sentimental around here – (laughter) – with about a little over a week to go in my tenure. And I am so pleased to welcome all of you here. I see many, many familiar faces and some good friends in this audience.
謝謝。我們大家在這裏都有點激動和動感情——（笑聲）——再過一個多星期我就要離任了。我非常高興歡迎各位到來。我在你們當中看到許許多多熟悉的面孔，還有些好朋友。

And I particularly want to thank Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell for driving not only this program, but so much that we have accomplished in the last four years to deepen and strengthen our relationship with China and others in the region, but particularly with China, as it is such a consequential relationship, one that we believe so strongly in. Ambassador Zhang, once again, welcome to the State Department. Because it is, for us, a way of making clear that our relations, government-to-government, are obviously essential. But it is those people-to-people ties that are going to determine the quality of the relationship for the future.
我要特別感謝助理國務卿庫爾特·坎貝爾不僅爲這個項目，而且爲在過去四年中我們爲深化和加強我們與中國及該地區其他國家——但主要是中國——的關係取得的許多成就所發揮的推動作用，因爲這是如此意義重大的關係，我們對它如此深信。張大使，再次歡迎您光臨國務院。因爲，這以一種方式表明我們的關係——政府對政府的關係——明顯地極其重要。然而，決定這一關係未來質量的將是那些人民對人民的聯繫。

Our engagement with China today deals with a wide range of the most pressing challenges and the most exciting opportunities. And when we began looking at ways to make our exchanges with China more productive, we of course ramped up our diplomatic engagement. We took delegations of investors and entrepreneurs to China. We institutionalized the Strategic and Economic Dialogue. We are very clear that what we’ve tried to build, an architecture that will stand the test of time regardless of what is going on in either of our countries, has been an essential effort.
我們今天與中國的接觸涉及多方面最迫切的挑戰以及最令人興奮的機遇。當我們開始尋求如何才能使與中國的交流更有成效時，我們當然增加了外交接觸。我們帶投資者和企業家代表團到中國。我們將戰略與經濟對話制度化。我們非常明確，我們在努力建立的——一種無論兩國各自國內動態如何能夠經得起時間考驗的架構——是一項根本性的努力。

And in 2010, we launched the 100,000 Strong Initiative. And as Kurt said, this is aimed at increasing the number of American students studying in China to 100,000 over four years. We focused on student exchanges because we believe that the future is very clearly in the hands of the young people of both of our countries. And the more we can foster exchanges and understanding, mutual trust, the better off not only the relationship will be, but each of our countries individually. We have to have far more than conversations with diplomats or journalists or leaders or businesspeople. There’s nothing more important than trying to build a structure of exchanges between us when it comes to students and other young people.
2010年，我們發起了“10萬人留學中國計劃”。正如庫爾特所說，這項計劃旨在在四年時間內將美國學生到中國留學的人數增加到10萬人。我們把重點放在學生交換上，因爲我們相信，未來顯然掌握在我們兩國的年輕人手中。而我們越是能夠增進交流和理解以及相互信任，就越對不僅兩國關係、而且對我們兩國各自有益。我們必須大大超越與外交官、記者、領導人或企業家對話的範疇。對學生和其他年輕人而言，沒有什麼比努力在我們之間建立一個交流結構來得更重要。

Now, we’ve made tremendous progress since 2010. We’ve already expanded study abroad programs. We’ve supported scholarship funds to help American students from underserved communities study in China. We’ve worked with Education USA to provide tools and resources for Chinese students seeking to study here. And the number of students coming between our two countries continues to grow. But we still have a lot of room for improvement.
自2010年以來，我們已經取得了巨大的進展。我們擴大了海外留學計劃。我們爲獎學金提供了支持，幫助來自缺少機會的社區的美國學生到中國學習。我們與美國教育諮詢中心合作，爲中國學生提供來這裏學習的手段和資源。我們兩國間互往的學生人數持續增長。但是，我們仍然有很多改進的餘地。

So I’m happy today that we’re launching a permanent, independent nonprofit organization focused not only on our goal of 100,000 American students in China by 2014, but on continuing to strengthen the student exchanges for years to come. And I’m so grateful to all of our State Department partners who are here today who have helped put the 100,000 Strong Foundation together.
因此，我今天很高興看到我們將成立一個永久性的、獨立的非營利性組織，不僅致力於到2014年使美國學生在中國留學人數達到10萬的目標，而且將不斷在未來歲月中增進學生交換。我在此衷心感謝今天在座的曾幫助共同創立“10萬人留學中國計劃基金會”的國務院的所有合作伙伴。

As I think back on the four years that I’ve been privileged to serve as Secretary of State, there are moments that just jump out of my memory bank. And one of them is when I finally got to our pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, which, as a number of you know, I am very proud to be called the mother of whenever I go to China because of the circumstances in which it was birthed. (Laughter.) But when I did get there for this magnificent expo that had been built up with pavilions from around the world and a magnificent Chinese pavilion, I was thrilled that the main attraction of our USA Pavilion were American students who had been studying Chinese, who were our designated hosts and greeters.
回顧過去四年我有幸擔任國務卿的歲月，有些時刻會立即顯現在眼前。其中之一是，在我抵達我們在上海世博會的展館——此事你們不少人都知道——每當我到訪中國——由於展館誕生的經歷——我都會被冠以媽媽的稱呼（笑聲）。但是當我確實到了那裏，參觀那個建有世界各地展館和一座宏偉的中國館的世博會時，讓我感到極其興奮的是，我們美國館最吸引人的是那些一直在學漢語的美國學生，他們是我們指定的展館接待員和禮賓員。

And I had the best time watching long lines of Chinese citizens who were coming to see our pavilion like they had been coming to see all of the pavilions looking surprised when some little African American girl would come up and start talking to them in Chinese, or some big tall Hispanic youngster would give them directions about how to go through the pavilion, or some other child – child; I’m so old, they’re all children – (laughter) – but some other student would come up and say something similar. And it was wonderful to watch the interchange. And I talked to some of the students. “Where were you from?” “Oh, from LA.” “Where are you from?” “Oh, from New York City.” And so many of these young people were first-generation college students in America who had just become taken with China, and so they were studying Chinese and now they were there as official representatives of the United States Government.
觀看排長隊等候參觀我國展館的中國人是讓我非常開心的經歷，那些前來參觀所有展館的人在看到一位非洲裔美國小女孩走上前去開始用漢語同他們說話時一臉驚訝，或某個高大的西班牙裔小夥子爲他們指路，告訴他們如何在展館裏參觀，或其他哪個孩子——孩子，因爲我這麼大年紀，所以他們都是些孩子（笑聲）——某個學生會走上來，說些類似的事情。目睹這些交流真是好極了。我同其中的一些學生聊起來。“你從哪裏來？”“哦，洛杉磯。”“你從哪裏來？”“哦，紐約市。”這些年輕人中，有許多是剛剛被中國吸引的美國第一代大學生，他們正在學習漢語，而此刻他們成了美國政府在那裏的正式代表。

I say that because that’s what we want to see more of. We want to see Chinese youngsters here, American youngsters in China, and we want to see them breaking down the barriers that exist between any peoples from different cultures and experiences and histories and backgrounds. And I think that will happen because in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago, young people in both China and the United States are global citizens. They are communicating with new tools of technology that were not even dreamt of a decade ago. And so they are already building cyber or Internet relationships, and we want to give them a chance to form the real deal – getting to know each other, getting to understand each other.
我說這些，是因爲這就是我們希望能更多看到的情況。我們希望在這裏看到中國的年輕人，而在中國能看到美國的年輕人，我們希望他們能夠打破任何存在於不同文化、經歷、歷史、背景的人之間的障礙。我認爲這會實現，因爲中美兩國的年輕人已經以僅在短短几年前還不可想象的方式變成全球公民。他們在用十年前想都想不到的新技術工具進行交流。因此他們已經在建立網際或因特網關係了，而我們希望給他們一個機會去形成一種貨真價實的關係——相互認識，相互理解。

So I’m thrilled that we’re announcing this foundation. I thank everyone here at the State Department and all of our partners who are making this possible. And I’m also very excited because this is a perfect example of a public-private partnership, and nobody does it better than the United States. We really are good at this because we have a long tradition of understanding that we have to have both government action and government involvement, but where most of life takes place in our country is not there; it’s outside of government. It’s in these other institutions – colleges and universities, foundations and philanthropies, individual efforts of all kind. So we are deeply grateful that you have understood our vision for 100,000 Strong and are making it a reality.
所以我們宣佈這個基金會的成立讓我特別高興。我感謝國務院在座各位以及所有促成此事的所有合作伙伴。另一個令我興奮的原因是，這是政府-民間夥伴關係的一個完美實例，沒有誰比美國做得更好。這一點的確是我們所擅長的，因爲我們有着悠久的傳統，即理解我們必須既有政府行動也有政府參與，但我國的大部分生活並不在政府範疇內，而是在政府之外，是在其他機制中——高等院校、基金會和慈善機構，以及通過個人的種種努力。因此，我們對於你們理解我們的“10萬人留學中國計劃”願景並正在使其成爲現實深表感謝。

And with that, let me turn it back to Assistant Secretary Campbell. Thank you all. (Applause.)
就此，讓我把話筒還給助理國務卿坎貝爾。謝謝大家（掌聲）。